ACTION ALERT: Call your State Senator Friday AM

Editor’s Note: Thank you to Laura Ebke of NE Campaign for Liberty for alerting us to these issues.

The Nebraska Campaign for Liberty’s Legislative Watch group “NebraskaLiberty’s Unicam Watch” has been busy reading bills introduced in this session and have identified two bills in particular—both carryovers from the last session—which will likely come to a Final Reading vote later this week (Friday afternoon) or early next week (Monday), which raise serious concerns for us.

Because Campaign for Liberty had such good luck with members and friends responding last year when they were trying to get our Congressmen and Senators to sponsor the Audit the Fed bill, they are calling on Grassroots in Nebraska members to help “flex some liberty muscle” with our state senators. The truth is that most of the senators seldom hear from “regular folks”, and most of what they hear is through groups. If you can get 6-10 (or more) to call your senator on these two bills, we can probably turn some votes around (we have been told that with respect to LB 261, especially, there is significant movement in the direction of passing it).

As far as Lincoln/Lancaster County senators go, we have the impression that Senator Colby Coash will be voting FOR both LB 550 and LB 261 Senator Fulton is planning on voting FOR LB 550 because he thinks that it won't change anything; our question is "why have the bill then?"

Thanks in advance for your help on this. We need to shake our state senators up and let them know that we are watching! Please pass this message around—if everyone on this list would call or e-mail their senator, and then pass this one to one or two friends to do the same, the legislature wouldn’t know what hit it. We will continue to monitor legislation and try to pick out some which would lend themselves well to grassroots action.